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Elon Musk on the Woke Mind Virus · Elon Musk Thinking

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  So I think a lot of people thought when you bought Twitter that this is
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  kind of an outlier, like, how does this what doesn't fit with these
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  other things you're doing. I never thought that because I think what you're dealing
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  with big civilizational issues and problems, and I was right on your page.
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  I think Twitter is one of them. I mean, you have talked about
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  this woke mind virus, yes, in really apocalyptic terms. I don't you
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  should explain why you don't think it's hyperbole to say things like it's pushing civilization
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  towards suicide. First of all, what is the woke mind virus? And
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  if we don't deal with this, nothing else can get done. Tell me
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  why you think that. Yeah, so I think we need to be very
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  cautious about any anything that is anti meritocratic and anything that is that results in
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  the suppression of a free speech. So, you know, those are two
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  of the aspects of the work mind virus that I think are very dangerous.
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  Is that it's often areacratic. You can't you can't question things, even the
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  questioning is bad. So, uh, you know, you know another way
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  to almost anonymous would we would be canceled culture And obviously people have tried to
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  cancel you many times, many times, yeah, I mean every week,
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  Yeah, from left and right. I've had it from both sides. Yeah.
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  And it's interesting people you and I are both like in that little group
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  of people. Maybe it's a bigger group. Yeah, who who are called
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  conservative? Who haven't really changed? I don't see. I think of you
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  as a conservative definitely. Yeah, Like at least think of myself as a
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  moderate, you know. So, I mean at least like I've spent a
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  massive amount of my life energy building sustainable energy, you know, electric vehicles
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  and batteries and solar and stuff to help save the environment. That's that's not
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  that's not a yeah, not exactly far right drew that diet.